To ask why all of the Queen's adult grandchildren have chosen to have kids?

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Out of the Queen's 6 adult grandchildren, all of them have had children. AIBU to ask whether this is normal in terms of pretty every member of a family having chosen to have kids?

I have chosen to not have children so feel like if I was a member of the royal family I would be judged quite a bit on my choice to remain childfree.

What a peculiar topic

They probably feel they can only truly trust family. I’m sure Zara is one of William’s best friends and Eugenie is one of Harry’s. They want to recreate this for their own children. Assume Kate is Pippa’s best friend and vice versa. Impossible for anyone to understand what it’s like to be in the BRF unless you’re in it so your school mates probably can’t empathise like your cousin.

and you’re eligible to social mountaineers so more likely to get married and that mountaineer will def want babies with you.

Definitely feel like the majority choose to have children. I have 5 cousins and 2 siblings. All 8 of us have children.

All my family and all DHs have kids. Can’t think of anyone who doesn’t. All my friends do too (except one who is gay). It’s not uncommon

How old are you?

I’m older than you but it’s the same in my circles. Most of my family, colleagues and friends from a wide range of places (school, college, uni, various places of work and hobbies) are childfree. I don’t even have many neighbours with children, one couple have a grown up child they hardly see and two couples have three under five between them but there aren’t a lot of children in my life, even on the edges. I think like a op said, it must run in pockets.

My DH and I have 1 sibling each that has children and 1 sibling each that has chosen to not. Both are fantastic Aunts, but don’t want their own children.

I would say that 4 out of every 5 IS a vast vast majority. I also think that there is still a strong social construct that "women have children" and this apart from the hormonal drivers....witness the lengths that many women go to to conceive and the pain and misery when this doesn't work.

Because a Christmas at such a Granny's house must be amazing!

Dunno.
In my family, my generation out of 6 grandchildren, 5 of us had kids(between 2 and 4 each). 1 didn't(didn't prioritise it).
So yes, normal really. Rf far more likely to marry and no financial bar to having however many kids they fancy

I don’t know anyone child free by choice except ones who are waiting to be married / older. BIL for example is 24; him and his partner want to wait until they’re married which will be 2025. I’m from a large family and all my cousins have children.

My granny had 6 dc & I went to school with a fair few families with 4 dc & most of my peers have 2/3 siblings but I don't know anyone my age with more than 3 & that's only a small handful, a few sets of twins so wasn't planned.

Mum's side (including me and my sisters) 11 cousins. 9 of us have children.

Dad's side (including me and my sisters) 12 cousins. 8 of us have children, the other 4 I'm not sure about.

One of my Aunt's didn't (Down Syndrome) and an Uncle (died young)

So probably not that unusual.

My Parents had 4 children and they all had more than 2 children each, of the 15 Grandchildren all had more than 2 children, of the 38 Great Grandchildren 25 0f them have had children so far, the others are still young. So yes i do think it is normal

What an odd thread. The Queen's adult grandchildren have ALL chosen to have children? So what?

TBH I'm amazed at the number of posters who don't know anyone who hasn't had children or never wanted children.

I’m one of 13 grandchildren, and only one of us is childless. He’s under 50, so he might still father a child. Between us, we have 25 children and three of them have had children of their own.

I don't know the stats off hand but how many of these childless women are married. Most married women have children. The royals have more opportunities than most to find a marriage partner, given the vast number of social events they are obliged to attend. You could say marrying and having kids is kinda their job. The royals wouldn't be much fun to gossip about if they didn't have cute little kids running around.

On the other hand, I am married (but have yet to TTC). I can't say that anyone particularly cares. Even my parents and MIL are not badgering me to get a move on since I am 30 this year!

They're rich with boring lives, what else is there to do?

I know a number of people who've chosen not to have children. But one of the Royal Family's purposes in life is to produce heirs. Also, they don't have concerns about affording children, which is an issue for quite a few people.

1. The royal family aren't representative of normal society

1. (As mentioned) hereditary monarchy

I'm one of 17 cousins
11 of us have children
1 would like children but hasn't met someone to settle down with yet
2 I don't know if they want children
2 are still young adults- at uni etc...
1 doesn't want children.

The 11 of us that have children have 30 children between us. I think it is still more common than not to want children, and in the Royal family its easier than most to start a family. I don't think it's odd or unusual to not want children though and I think it's increasing.

This.
I am one of nine grandchildren, only four had children. Three were not able and couldn't afford fertility treatment, two chose not to have any.

I'm childfree by circumstance - I never met the right person to try & didn't feel driven to find another way. That is true of weirdly most of my female friends. And most of them have been in my life since my 20s and have by happenstance ended up in the same boat. I know that's probably not the norm.

Because they want a family.

The sex selection? Maybe I was just speculating as I know two different couples in real life who did exactly that - went through sex selection ivf to get the gender they wanted on the third go. And both were aiming for a boy after two girls. Both in the USA though, perhaps not as common in the UK.